I am a user from bulgaria so my halo keyboard has a bulgarian BDS layout and the international US key layout.
however it always wants to default to uk layout messing up the special chars (both qwerty but special chars are located differently). even after removing uk english as language it always gets added back.
anyone else with multilingual layouts having the same issue ?
What i also noticed is that when you use touchpal and switch the languages it enforces the uk layout when switching back to English.
it is somewhat annoying to always pay attention when switching the language.
cheers,
fozz
Dear Fozz,
I am running the android Yoga Book with german QWERTZ Halo keyboard and am running in somewhat similiar issues. The keyboard layout is changed (without any visual feedback) by pressing SHIFT+SPACEBAR. This unfortunately happens quite frequently due to my typing style. However this also should be a quick workaround for you - once special characters are wrongly mapped, just press the combination and type on.
I am also trying to use other keyboard software (swiftkey) to ease this issue, but it seems to be part of the Halo drivers (tried to remove the uk map, it will reappear everytime).
Regards
Hans
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Just found out something really puzzling... I always use the on-screen keyboard, which works perfectly well in french and english (both languages I use commonly), apart from the fact that the layout itself changes when you change the language but still it works.
My issue is about the hardware keyboard (i.e. on the slider). there the layouts are inverted, meaning when I am in xT9 french, the layout is qwerty, and vice versa !
Anyone had the issue already ? if so, any answer to this please ?
ok nevermind, just called HTC Europe in France, it's a known bug awaiting for a patch...
I always configure the UI of my mobile phones with english. But I write sms/emails in French, German, English & Spanish. Android does not seem to offer the possibility to quickly change the input language of the keyboard. It looks like UI language both determines keyboard layout and input language, which is EXTREMELY inconvenient for someone using several languages on a daily basis.
Does it exist a workaround, an external app or a feature I oversaw to solve this major drawback? Keyboard layout and input language should be configurable both independently from UI language.
Thanks for the help
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I always configure the UI of my mobile phones with english. But I write sms/emails in French, German, English & Spanish. Android does not seem to offer the possibility to quickly change the input language of the keyboard. It looks like UI language both determines keyboard layout and input language, which is EXTREMELY inconvenient for someone using several languages on a daily basis.
Does it exist a workaround, an external app or a feature I oversaw to solve this major drawback? Keyboard layout and input language should be configurable both independently from UI language.
Thanks for the help
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I have the same question, for somebody that uses different languages on a daily basis it really is extremely inconvenient...
Any solution for this or would this be worth developing $$$
I have this problem as well.. I want to be able to switch between English and Dutch input.
My old sony ericsson's (W910, W580, W300) could do this by long pressing * or #, don't remember which key
I've got the same issue. So still nothing on this? I've been looking everywhere, haven't found a solution besides: switch language UI.
So Im not the only one? And I thought I was special. Oh well, Im having the same issue too and its a real pain in the arss.
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OP ended the original post with a question.
Has nothing to do with the development of ROMs.
I had the same problem and found a keyboard replacement on the market: AnySoftKeyboard. That keyboard comes with different downloadable dictionaries and you can change layout and dictionary on the fly.
The layout is not always well done (e.g. delete key to small for the german layout) but works well enough for me.
Search for a modified HTC_IME which I found here on XDA, it suits this need perfectly. You can choose the subset of the supported languages you want to use, and cycle betweenthem with a gesture (I chose swipe up, but it's configurable).
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Hello to all,
I have a leather case with USB-keyboard.
Normal language is GERMAN
Keyboard layout is ENGLISH
Is there any chance to get german letters like ß ÄÖÜ öäü while typing on the keyboard.
When I bougth it, I thought when pressing long on the S key I will have ß or on O it will be Ö like on the screen keyboard. But it is not as beleived.
Does anyone of you knows a solution for this?
Is there a possibility like in Windows with ALT+keycode or anything else?
Thanks a lot in advance
Rainer
rainerhoefs said:
Hello to all,
I have a leather case with USB-keyboard.
Normal language is GERMAN
Keyboard layout is ENGLISH
Is there any chance to get german letters like ß ÄÖÜ öäü while typing on the keyboard.
When I bougth it, I thought when pressing long on the S key I will have ß or on O it will be Ö like on the screen keyboard. But it is not as beleived.
Does anyone of you knows a solution for this?
Is there a possibility like in Windows with ALT+keycode or anything else?
Thanks a lot in advance
Rainer
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Have you tried going into the system settings, and change everything to German concerning keyboard input?
Android doesn't really recognize Windows keyboard shortcuts.
MD
I use External Keyboard Helper Pro from Google Play to change layout for my external keyboard.
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Hello to all
I have found the solution for my keyboard problem.
Alt s = ß
Alt u makes the dots for öäüÄÖÜ
First you type alt u for the dots and then the letter!
Alt u U = Ü and so on
Thanks to all
Rainer
Hi all,
I've been playing around with my wife's MS2, running Tezet's CM10. I've been trying to get her phone to be able to have two seperate keyboard layouts for the physical keyboard, namely English (QWERTY) and Hebrew.
So far the only solution I've found is to use AnySoftKeyboard with the Hebrew plugin from the market which allows me to change the layout on the soft keyboard and then when I pull out the physical keyboard the layout remains as selected. Any other keyboard (stock or otherwise) that I've tried reverts back to QWERTY when using the physical keyboard, although once I shut it the soft keyboard remains as selected.
Isn't there any way to have the same behaviour as AnySoftKeyboard on the stock keyboard or even better, on Swiftkey? Or some other way of doing it?
Thanks for any help!
Edit: Posted here and not on the CM10 thread because this has been the case on every ROM I have tried...
Hi!
Perhaps I'm being stupid and there is a way I cannot find but it's there. But I'm unable to discover how can I set different keyboards for the halo and the virtual one.
I would not like the same actions on both. For example, when in Halo, no autocorrection - specially on another language -, no auto capital letters after period, no space after inserted word, etc...) and I can adjust everything properly with the pal keyboard that comes with the tablet (and probably that will be the best working with this keyboard). But I would prefer thousand times to use the google keyboard when in tab mode, writing on the virtual keyboard. Not only I'm used to it, and it's the ones I use on my phone (so, it's more comfortable to have the same behaviour), but really I like it much more, and also I can have it configured in a different way (with autocorrection, space after word insert, and so on) that makes sense for me in a virtual keyboard, but not in a physical (or nearly physical) one like the Halo.
¿Any suggestion? Would be something that would make my experience with this tab wonderful...
Thx
nachordez said:
Hi!
Perhaps I'm being stupid and there is a way I cannot find but it's there. But I'm unable to discover how can I set different keyboards for the halo and the virtual one.
I would not like the same actions on both. For example, when in Halo, no autocorrection - specially on another language -, no auto capital letters after period, no space after inserted word, etc...) and I can adjust everything properly with the pal keyboard that comes with the tablet (and probably that will be the best working with this keyboard). But I would prefer thousand times to use the google keyboard when in tab mode, writing on the virtual keyboard. Not only I'm used to it, and it's the ones I use on my phone (so, it's more comfortable to have the same behaviour), but really I like it much more, and also I can have it configured in a different way (with autocorrection, space after word insert, and so on) that makes sense for me in a virtual keyboard, but not in a physical (or nearly physical) one like the Halo.
¿Any suggestion? Would be something that would make my experience with this tab wonderful...
Thx
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For the virtual one, while typing mode (cursor on a field) look at the lower right of your taskbar. You should see a keyboard icon click it and set the input methods and settings there.
Yes, thanks, I'm aware of that. I meant to set different keyboards for virtual and physycal, not chainging each time...It seems not possible. It's a pitty. For spanish writing, dead keys are needen for accented vowels (á, é, ...) and it does not work properly in this keyboard on any keyboard but the special TouchPal that comes with the tab. But this is not a very comfortable virtual keyboard (and you have to disable adding spaces or capital letters to have a natural typing when physical). So I will have to change between them each time I change from physical to virtual. Fortunately, I'm doing most things on the halo, so I can manage.
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Yes, thanks, I'm aware of that. I meant to set different keyboards for virtual and physycal, not chainging each time...It seems not possible. It's a pitty. For spanish writing, dead keys are needen for accented vowels (á, é, ...) and it does not work properly in this keyboard on any keyboard but the special TouchPal that comes with the tab. But this is not a very comfortable virtual keyboard (and you have to disable adding spaces or capital letters to have a natural typing when physical). So I will have to change between them each time I change from physical to virtual. Fortunately, I'm doing most things on the halo, so I can manage.
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Try swiftkey.
Orion116 said:
Try swiftkey.
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Thanks, but that's not the point. As virtual keyboards there are many that work fine (I use google one, and love it).
The problem is that the Halo keyboard is not a real one, and when not in international English Qwerty (mine is Spanish) does the accented related things in a non standard way (first it drows the special accent character like ´ and then mixes it with the vowel, to give á or é or so. That's not how dead keys really work. It seems like a strange personalization of the keyboard for another languages that only works with its provided TouchPal. So, no other keyboard will work for writing in Spanish with Halo (and mine is physically impressed in Spanish, and I write usually in Spanish, so, I have no other option). But the adjustments, like the auto capitals and correction, added spaces and so (and the own TouchPal, that does not fit me as a virtual keyboard) to make it work fine as a "real" keyboard, are not good for a virtual one. So, I have to change among two different keyboards when I go for laptop mode to screen one.
Google keyboard, as a matter of fact, does fine with the halo. It needs no special adjustments, understands properly how works a real keyboard and a virtual one, needing no special adjustments... but cannot handle the á é í .... characters (basic in Spanish) because of the non standard procedure by the Halo. So, it's my choice for the virtual, but does not work (unless I'm writing english and don't need the accented characters) with halo.
I probably could use External Keyboard Helper to manage also efficiently dead keys (it's so programmable...), but, once again, would be useful just for Halo, but has no virtual interface.
So, I see that there is no option to have two different default keyboard apps for virtual and Halo, and that makes me to have to change continuously between both.
It's a pitty. Don't think that should be difficult to implement by Lenovo, and would have made live much more easy, really...
Thx